The tale of Melissa Odabash & Alaia & Avalon de Santis

Melissa Odabash - the queen of the perfectly cut costume - is sitting between her two daughters Alaia and Avalon (named after her favourite designer and the Roxy Music song) at her imposing Hyde Park home. “This is the first time I’ve seen you two talking - see how nice it is being together?” she says as the girls laugh at their mother affectionately...

It would be easy to forget amidst all the celebrity vacations and poolside posing required while running a multi-million-pound swimwear label that Melissa is also a mother – albiet a very high-octane one. Her “other husband” is fashion designer Julien Macdonald (her real one is Spanish internet entrepreneur Nicolas De Santis) and outside her dressing room suite is a wall of pictures with every star you can imagine. At one point our shoot is put on pause while Melissa posts a pictur

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